The people making these decisions for these websites are like ocean liner captains who are *trying* to hit icebergs.
Shubham Bose, “The 49MB Web Page”:
I went to the New York Times to glimpse at four headlines and was
greeted with 422 network requests and 49 megabytes of data. It
took two minutes before the page settled. And then you wonder why
every sane tech person has an adblocker installed on systems of
Link to: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47390945
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